Black Issues in Higher Education

Articles from Vol. 21, No. 23, December 30

The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and, of course, the hotly contested U.S. presidential election were just two of the events that dominated the headlines in 2004. Throughout the year, colleges and universities, as well as other educational...

PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia city officials in partnership with the Microsoft Corp. broke ground on the construction of the School of the Future last month, a cutting-edge facility that will marry technology and education to boost learning for its...

I am bi-racial. My mother is Japanese, and my father is African American. My parents in effect were equal opportunity daters. I grew up in my father's old neighborhood in New York's South Bronx. He grew up in a pre-Brown era. The South Bronx was predominantly...

BALTIMORE Coppin State University and the Greater Baltimore Urban League have collaborated to publish The State of Black Baltimore, a collection of scholarly research and observations from some of the region's top scholars and leaders addressing...

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Edward Waters College has lost its accreditation two months after a plagiarism scandal at the historically Black college, say school officials. The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools...

NASHVILLE, TENN. The search to replace outgoing Tennessee State University President James A. Hefner was narrowed to six candidates at the presidential search committee's Dec. 13 meeting. The process could've proven disastrous because Hefner surfaced...

MIAMI Forsaking her promise of enjoying the fruits of retirement after 26 years as a Miami Dade College employee and most recently Medical Center Campus president, Dr. Castell Vaughn Bryant is back at doing what earned her a stellar reputation:...

ATLANTA Morris Brown College officials in Atlanta are being mum about the recent indictment of their former president and financial aid director. Dr. Dolores Cross, who now teaches at DePaul University in Illinois, and her financial aid director...

Events in 2004 proved riveting. One of the more highly anticipated events, besides the U.S. presidential election, was the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board. During one of the more glamorous celebrations of the U.S. Supreme Court's...

Women have gained ground in education over the last decade and now represent a majority of college students and college graduates, with many of the gains attributed to a growing number of older women pursuing degrees, according to a new analysis by...

NEW YORK Shawn C. Nabors, 14, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the winner of "Positively Negative," an HIV/AIDS National story-writing competition for youth ages 14-22. Nabors will receive a $500 cash prize and his story will be adapted into a screenplay and...

LAWRENCE, KAN. While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Dr. Denise Low and T.E Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery. "Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned,...

SEATTLE The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation in December announced $29.6 million in grants to eight organizations to expand the early college high school network to more than 25 states. Early college high schools provide traditionally underserved...

Comedian, actor and philanthropist Bill Cosby made headlines earlier this year, and not for a starring role in a new TV show or because of a multimillion-dollar gift to a college or university, but for his comments surrounding low-income African Americans...

COLUMBUS, OHIO The Ohio State University College of Education honored Dr. Anne Pruitt-Logan, a nationally recognized leader in graduate programming to attract members of minorities and women to teaching careers in universities. Induction into...

Major changes are underway at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that may have wide-ranging implications for colleges and universities seeking guidance from the Bush administration on affirmative action in higher education. President Bush has named...

Reclaiming alumni and fund raising are just two of the issues that will be addressed at the National Alumni Council (NAC) of the United Negro College Fund's (UNCF) 59th annual meeting to be held Feb. 3-6, in Orlando, Fla. The NAC-UNCF is made up...

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. In encouraging low-income single mothers to earn a college education, federal and state governments, along with higher education institutions, will make a solid, longterm investment for the whole society, a Penn State researcher...

NEW YORK Students who felt they were being racially stereotyped were more likely to show difficulty in assessing their academic skills and performance than those who hadn't felt the stigma, according to New York University research. "The Ups...

WASHINGTON The Smithsonian Board of Regents, the institution's governing body, named the members of the founding Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in early December. The new museum will be the only national museum...

You wouldn't think a computer tool with an innocuous-sounding name as a cookie would create the fear that it does. But these tiny Web browser helpers are an example of how the useful can get tossed in with the dangerous through the nearhysteria brought...

At the 20th anniversary gala of Black Issues In Higher Education this past June, Dr. David Levering Lewis was honored with an inaugural John Hope Franklin Distinguished Contributor to Higher Education award. Lewis' prizewinning scholarship played no...

SEATTLE Fired three years into his five-year contract as, the head football coach of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish last month, Tyrone Willingham was named to lead the University of Washington's football program less than a month later, marking his...

ATHENS, GA. University of Georgia President Michael Adams said the school will take steps in the coming year to increase its enrollment of Black freshmen. He declined to comment on a faculty committee's recommendation that the school go back...

CHAMPAIGN, ILL. Students from poverty-stricken families aspiring to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) may be able to do so debt free because of a new plan announced in early December. The Illinois Promise program, which...